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Viva Zapata! (1952)
7.5/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
An account of a Mexican peasant's rise to power and eventual Presidency. Marlon Brando is terrific as Zapata and Anthony Quinn is equally so in an Osc... Read more
Baby Doll (1956)
7.5/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock
Tennessee William's drama of a backwoods child bride, her obsessive husband and the stranger who enters their lives was the most controversial film of... Read more
Panic in the Streets (1950)
7.3/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Paul Douglas
In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public... Read more
Boomerang (Blu-ray + DVD) (1947)
7.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt
The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. Read more
The Last Tycoon (1976)
6.3/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Jeanne Moreau, Anjelica Huston, Theresa Russell, Ja...
Based on the unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, celebrated actor Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as ruthless motion-picture studio head M... Read more
A Streetcar Named Desire ( Blu-ray ) (1951)
8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh
Blanche du Bois, the magnificently brooding Vivien Leigh, a faded descendant of the once-proud Southern gentry, comes to live with her matter-of-fact... Read more
East of Eden ( Blu-ray ) (1955)
8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Burl Ives, James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Lois Smith, R...
The film that catapulted James Dean to cult status! Adapted from the John Steinbeck novel, this powerful family drama examines modern conflict and neu... Read more
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
7.4/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Garfield, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Gregory Peck plays a magazine writer who masquerades as a Jew in order to report firsthand on high-society discrimination. Oscars for Best Picture, Di... Read more
East of Eden (1955)
8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fle...
The film that catapulted James Dean to cult status! Adapted from the John Steinbeck novel, this powerful family drama examines modern conflict and neu... Read more
Wild River (1960)
7.7/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
When Chuck Glover comes to Alabama to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River, he is not surprised to encounter opposition from the local... Read more
The Visitors (1972)
6.5/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: James Woods, Steve Railsback, Patrick McVey, Chico Martinez, Patricia Joyce
Bill Schmidt (James Woods) is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and wants to take it easy. His father-in-law Harry Wayne (Patrick McVey), who ha... Read more
On the Waterfront (1954)
8.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden
Marlon Brando stars in the archetypal role of ex-fighter Terry Malloy, working for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. T... Read more
Splendour in the Grass (1961)
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Warren Beatty (in his film debut) and Natalie Wood portray young lovers in the 1920s Midwest, whose inner struggles to retain a pure and virtuous love... Read more
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
8.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
Andy Griffith made his stunning movie debut as Lonesome, a big ol' teddy bear whose meteoric rise to TV fame is paralleled by his plunge into booze, s... Read more
On The Waterfront (Blu-Ray) (1954)
8.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Karl Malden, Lee J Cobb, Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Leif Erickson, James Wester...
Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to t... Read more
Pinky (1949)
7.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan
Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to vis... Read more
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Blanche du Bois, the magnificently brooding Vivien Leigh, a faded descendant of the once-proud Southern gentry, comes to live with her matter-of-fact... Read more
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
8.1/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
Peggy Ann Gardner finds that life can be difficult if you are poor and live in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Adapted from Betty Smith's novel,... Read more